Kamis, 21 Februari 2013

Bagian dari evolusi

Bagian dari evolusi, seperti apa yang telah terjadi jutaan tahun yang lalu dimana moluska berevolusi menjadi vertebrata air dan kemudian hidup didaratan menjadi nenek moyang dinosaurus. Dinosaurus punah akibat selimut debu yang menyelubungi bumi, dan membuat mamalia kecil bertahan. Entah apakah benar manusia adalah keturunan kera hingga manusia purba, tetapi evolusi terus berjalan.
Dan kini kita tiba di tahun 2013, evolusi apa lagi yang bisa terjadi kepada kita?
Masih ada!

Situasi di luar negeri, dimana senior resident walking with dog, buah-buahan di supermarket dijual dalam porsi kecil (semangka, melon). N kalo lu pernah ke eropa, pasti jarang lihat iklan produk bayi, lebih sering lihat iklan asuransi dan online shopping di tivi. :p

Lihatlah negara2 maju (Skandinavia, US, Eropa), banyak orang yang hidup sendiri, cowo/cewe yg ga nikah, entah ga nemu jodohnya atau pilihan ini diambil menjadi jalan hidupnya. Who knows?

Asia, Amerika Selatan dan Afrika adalah obyek terakhir dari evolusi ini. Jepang, Hong Kong dan Singapura sedang mengalaminya saat ini. Kian sibuknya manusia, sempitnya ruang kota, tingginya biaya hidup dan terbatasnya waktu membuat mereka menjadi tekun, giat bekerja, efisien dan memiliki keluarga kecil.
Apakah mereka juga bagian dari evolusi?

Banyak anak banyak rejeki, hanya berlaku untuk keluarga pengemis. :p


Jumat, 25 Januari 2013

Disewakan apartemen

Disewakan Apartemen Kalibata Residence dengan Tower E spesifikasi 2 kamar tidur, 1 dapur kecil, 1 kamar mandi, full furnished, 2 AC, luas bangunan 33m2,
Biaya sewa:
Rp 10 juta per tiga bulan,
Rp 20 juta per enam bulan, atau
Rp 37 juta per tahun.
Deposit 3,5 juta, akan dikembalikan apabila kontrak selesai.

Apartment Kalibata Residence for rent, 3, 6 or 12 months. Full furnished. 2 BR, 1 toilet, 1 mini kitchen, 2 AC. 10m/3mo, 20m/6mo, 37m/12mo. Deposit Rp 3.5 million, will be returned after the contract is finished.
Call: +62-815-8944-362







Minggu, 02 Desember 2012

Just another Bali

Bali, island of paradise that has international reputation, either from its tourism or from two times terrorist attack (Bali Bombing I and II).

And what does Bali have now? Yeah, there's some progress (no more "heavy" traffic congestion) in Jl Legian in certain period (not include office hour, after hour and clubbing hour) 😜 and serious bottleneck in Jl Blambangan-Kuta that must be top priority.
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Everybody still visit Kuta beach, although (almost) every beaches in Bali (or even in the universe) are same, sand and sea. Dont forget the massage, tattoo and braid services that you MUST bargained before received it. If you dont want it, just say no, and they'll leave you alone.
Kuta is quite clean, friendly and its very Bali. Some officer clean it every morning, picked all those trashes. Kuta beach is better to visit in dusk or dawn. Many dogs are seen on beach, some moslem visitor may uncomfortable with them.

Hotel: I stayed in Swiss-Belhotel Kuta or Bali Kuta Resort, room is huge! With separated living room and bedroom :)
Coz hotels layout is rectangular, to stay here I recommend you to have pool view rather than outside view (depends on your taste). Img.

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Cozy room, but lack of hotel slippers, bad water drainage on shower and unfortunately my room has other guest, ants! I'v told the receptionist and they suggest me to tell it earlier for room service to clean them up. I think the ants has nest near my room or somewhere.

Shopping:
Shopping become core of Bali's tourism (if you know what i mean), and there are many places worth for shopping, like Joger or Krisna. Joger has only three branches and recently it sells common things that you can found in street vendors.

Krisna, most famous shopping destination has many branches surrounding Kuta area! Well done bli, well done.

As far as I observed, most shopping places are visited by local tourist! (Are foreigners wake up late??)

I saw some chinese and middle east tourist but not many.
For those who are in rush catch up flight, I recommend to visit Krisna. They have (almost) all type if souvenir sell in Bali.

Tourist attraction:
Natural landscapes, art performances or educational places, and what else can we see in Bali?
Just sit there, relax, enjoy the view without rushing here and there, annoyingly taking pictures as most tourist did.

GWK is still the same, the head and body of Wisnu still separated from his Garuda and his hand, and people still visited it. Some drivers said that Dreamland beach is the new happening place worth to visit, but had no time, I visited most mainstream tourist visit.

Though I visited Bali more than three times, Bali still not disappointing, Bali never lost it's charm.















Senin, 12 November 2012

Foods and beverages that must be tried when you visit, Australia

Most (but not many) travellers demand to enjoy local specialty like food or beverage when they visited a region, village, city or even a country.

This time is Australia.

Its quite hard to find local flavour there coz Australia is a "salad", a mixed country consist of many culture and races so the people (or restaurant) tend to bring culinary flavour from their origin, luckily i found two traditional beverages and two traditional foods there.

The first two beverages is Bundaberg Ginger Beer and Solo soda. Ginger beer actually just a soda with ginger taste, better to serve chilled ;)

Solo soda is one of the traditional pub non-alcohol beverage, taste almost similar to Sprite, but i think Solo is has stronger lemon taste.

The first food must be tried is Vegemite, this authentic Australian spread or jam made from fermented barley which is side product of beer making. Taste like cheese (a bit) but it wont make you drunk anyway.
Some said that if you ate Vegemite, it will fluent your english and has australian accent :p

The second food must tried in Australia is Kangaroo steak! Yep, Kangaroo!
I recommend you to buy it in local supermarket like Coles or Woolworths than order it in steak house/restaurant (in case it will cost higher). In Coles 0.5kg Kangaroo steak costs around A$11, already marinated.
The meat is solid dark red, not marbling like wagyu or other beef cut.
The taste depends on the seasoning/marinating ingredients.
To grill it, dont make it well done, but try to make it medium/half to avoid it become hard.
Taste? Delicious! :q

Kamis, 20 September 2012

Akhir Pekan

Bertemu sabtu itu seru,
Ia menyapa dengan manis,
seolah tahu bahwa aku perlu liburan setelah stress berat senin hingga jumat.
"ayo bagus, mari kita bersenang-senang, nonton film, jalan-jalan, makan-makan, bermalas-malasan seeeeepuasnya... Semuanya boleh!"
Aaaah Ia tahu aku cinta hari sabtu, padahal aku lahir dihari rabu.

Malam minggupun tiba,
Aku merasa memasuki pertapaan panjang, sebuah penghayatan akan indahnya akhir pekan... Akhir pekan yang tak kan kusia-siakan tiap momennya.

Ketika sampai dihari minggu,
the fun is still in the air! Bersenang-senang, sepuasnya, segila-gilanya!

Ketika senja pun tiba,
😳
Terasa sedih dan sendu
Ku tau hal ini pasti datang...

Why people put saturday and sunday too close, while they put monday and friday so far .__.

Failure

Nobody likes failure, but maybe somebody likes to laugh at us when we failed (maybe, but figure out how very negative-thinking I am).
But thats about somebody else, what about ourself?

Nobody likes failure.

Approved, achieved, passed, accomplished and succeed are words that required us to be perfect on doing/implementing our assignment/task. But what happened when we failed?

Having failure feels like somebody pointed a gun to your face, and you feel helpless....

Anger,
sad,
confusion,
denial, hopeless and many negative and desperate emotional words we can mentioned. World felt like torn apart, crushed, no favorite songs can cure the pain :(

Its hard, very hard some said.

Negative emotion is overwhelmed, and suspicion is around (see the word at the opening, that even I thought that somebody out there is happy with my failure!!).
What a toxic mind!

And the process continue to analyze what's wrong with it. I think there's two aspect that we can put the blame is, internally mine and external factor.

Internal factor is about what's wrong with us:
Did I well-prepared for this task?
What effort has I've done to achieve it?

External factor is about outside factor that may caused failure, anything can be the cause, mythical, irrational, coincidence or rational-logical reasons can be made, but I prefer to make things simple.

Dont compare yourself to other,
Everybody is unique, even twins are unidentic. So nobody has the same skills or intelligent level to other.

This is the best that I can do,
Remember those effort that you've put so hard, very hard to finished it.

Grateful for what you've achieve,
Yeah, there's always comparison between A and B etc, but still be grateful for any kind of small things that you've achieved today. Health and being surrounded by family and friends are small things that might be missed from our eye sight.

I just read a blog from Dondi Hananto, about capital for enterpreneur. See the notes here: http://www.dondihananto.com/. In the encore, he wrote in Bahasa Indonesia and I summarize it in English: "don't blame yourself or external factor, but focused on the solution of the problem"

I read that and WOW! He's god damn right.
myself, somebody or anything can be blamed, but it wont change the previous result. So its better to take the responsibility, not to blame somebody or the situation and start focused on the solution, how to solve/re-encounter/change the situation/problem!

Like Incubus said: "Just a phase, and it soon be over"

Menggigil di Melbourne

Hawa dingin
Perlahan,
Merayap,
Mengendap,
Mengalir, membungkus tubuh,
Membekukan sendi, mematirasakan jari-jari,
Membekukan bibir,
Membekukan setiap tarikan nafas,
Dingin, menusuk kulit menghujam tulang.

Butir air terasa seperti jarum,

Mengigil,
Gemeretak sekujur tubuh,
Semakin ku berlari, semakin kuat hujaman jarum-jarum beku ini,

Kemana ku harus pergi?
Dimanakah sumber kehangatan itu?
Dimana?